1995 Beninese parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Benin on 28 March 1995, although voting for thirteen seats was re-run on 28 May after the Constitutional Court invalidated the results due to irregularities. ^[1]

The Democratic Renewal Party emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly, winning 19 of the 83 seats. Voter turnout was 75.8%. ^[2]

The Constitutional Court declared the results of one seat invalid, reducing the size of the National Assembly to 82 seats. ^[1]

Results

Party		Original results		After re-run		Seats
		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Democratic Renewal Party	265,635	14.24	225,175	15.42	19
	Benin Rebirth Party	250,474	13.43	212,428	14.55	21
	Social Democratic Party	136,240	7.30	111,756	7.66	8
	Action Front for Renewal and Development	129,831	6.96	89,919	6.16	10
	Our Common Cause	105,280	5.64	82,898	5.68	3
	Union for Democracy and National Solidarity	94,486	5.07	71,061	4.87	5
	Liberal Democrats' Rally for National Reconstruction – Vivoten	86,437	4.63	63,152	4.33	3
	Communist Party of Benin	73,134	3.92	48,021	3.29	1
	FDDM–UNSP	58,640	3.14	44,752	3.07	2
	Impulse for Progress and Development	50,255	2.69	39,149	2.68	3
	African Rally for Progress and National Solidarity	47,068	2.52	37,690	2.58	1
	National Union for Democracy and Progress	45,977	2.47	37,563	2.57	1
	Alliance for Democracy and Development	41,420	2.22	36,370	2.49	1
	Alliance for Democracy and Progress	46,571	2.50	35,896	2.46	1
	National Movement for Democracy and Development	38,758	2.08	28,993	1.99	1
	National Rally for Democracy	35,511	1.90	28,455	1.95	0
	Political Alliance of Independents (PUR–UPR–MDS)	33,233	1.78	28,162	1.93	0
	Union for Labour and Democracy–National Labour Party	34,919	1.87	25,571	1.75	0
	National Rally for Justice and Peace–Party of Salvation	32,294	1.73	23,232	1.59	0
	Chameleon Alliance	29,856	1.60	21,960	1.50	1
	Democratic Union of the Forces of Progress	27,313	1.46	21,093	1.44	0
	Rally for Democracy and Pan-Africanism	26,359	1.41	21,027	1.44	1
	Rally for Democracy and Work–National Party for Solidarity and Progress	26,206	1.41	20,939	1.43	0
	Alliance for Social Democracy	28,392	1.52	20,266	1.39	1
	MSUP–UDRN	19,812	1.06	15,006	1.03	0
	UDES–RDD	17,054	0.91	13,355	0.91	0
	Democratic Union for Development	18,284	0.98	12,125	0.83	0
	United Front for Renewal, Democracy, Freedom and Development	18,716	1.00	12,118	0.83	0
	PESJ–PR–RASN	17,277	0.93	11,508	0.79	0
	Union for Freedom and Development	14,850	0.80	11,348	0.78	0
	CDU–PRB–PCP–RUND	14,862	0.80	8,913	0.61	0
Total		1,865,144	100.00	1,459,901	100.00	83
Source: Election Passport

References

1. "Election Watch". Journal of Democracy. 6 (3). 1995. ISSN   1086-3214.
2. Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p91 ISBN   0-19-829645-2